THESES ON THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT DECLARATION

Written:Written not before May 4 (17), 1917Published:First published in 1925 inLenin Miscellany IV.

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      Progress Publishers,1971,

      Moscow,Volume 36,

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1)Peacewithout annexations
a world revolutionagainst capital,

2)Revisionof the treaty
either a farce, or aworld revolutionagainst capital.

“Stepsfor an agreementwith the Allies.”

2bis) Puffing the
capitalists: “Allied
democracies”: glossing over the
class struggle.

3)Allland to thepeasants—

this can be realised evenwithout a revolutionagainst capital, by meansof abloc, anallianceofthe capitalists and therichpeasants.

4)Allland to theworking people—

this cannot berealised without arevolution againstcapital.

5)Organisationof production —

either a fraud (andmore enrichment for thecapitalists) or a utopiawithout a revolutionagainst capital.

6) “Anoffensive” —

a utopia without the greatestrevolutionary enthusiasm of the masses,which can flow only from the
greatest revolution, a revolution
against capital.

7)Departurefrom the Soviets,betrayal of them,transition tobureaucracy:“state control”, we arefor. Butby whom?Who isto exercise control?Officials?Orthe Soviets?

8)ConstituentAssembly on land:

alreadyout of date

9)Noconfidence and no support!

10)Evenmore strongly: explanation of theproletarianline, drawing a distinction between it and
thepetty-bourgeoisline

σσ=aMinistry of petty-bourgeois illusions and
petty-bourgeois compromise.